Hi Sander, On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:01:12PM +0100, Lukas Tribus wrote: > Hi, > > > > On 03.03.2014 14:45, Sander Klein wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> would it be possible to support IP_FREEBIND with HAProxy-1.5 on linux? > >> > >> I'm asking because nonlocal_bind only works for IPv4 and it seems > >> linux upstream does not want to support nonlocal_bind for IPv6. > >> > >> A thread about this can be found here: > >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/7317 > >> > >> Currently I'm binding IP's to a dummy interface so HAProxy can start, > >> but this is starting to become a nightmare. > > > > Replying to myself... I'm probably looking for the 'transparant' option. > > Looking at the docs it seems to do what I want... > > Yes, the transparent option sets IPV6_TRANSPARENT on IPv6 sockets, which > should achieve this. > > Please let us know if this works for you; we do IP_FREEBIND only on IPv4, > not on IPv6. > > Also, be advised that this is not supported on ancient kernels, support > for those things appeared in 2.6.37. You may want to use a 3.x kernel for > this.
Please test the snapshot from this morning, it contains Lukas' patch. Willy
